China’s RVSM High-Altitude Equipment Standards to Become International Civil Aviation Standards

When Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM) standards were used in Chinese airspace safely and smoothly for nearly a year, the ICAO discussed and adopted the metric RVSM high-altitude equipment standards used in China into the International Civil Aviation Standard Annex II. The RVSM high-altitude equipment standards will be formally incorporated into ICAO standards in November of 2009. Since 2007, the ATMB of CAAC has been consulting with ICAO, IATA, Russia, and other neighboring countries and relevant international organizations. This is the first time in the history of Chinese civil aviation air traffic control that a Chinese standard has been adopted as the international standard.